Archive for January, 2009

I came across this article on Mashable about Mobile Syndication Services. It allows users to create branded iPhone applications without any programming experience. It’s being marketed to small companies, teachers, probloggers, athletes, politicians and celebrities as a means of branded content delivery mechanism to the iPhone that can be easily maintained from a web-based admin. It allows the user to put in a custom RSS Feed in a branded news section, create a splash page,upload videos for audience consumption, and of course broadcast twitter from their custom application.

The first thing that i thought of was that this is Wordpress for iPhone. It simplifies the process of creating an iPhone Application as long as the author is willing to work within the template. Then I thought Geocities, Angelfire then congested desktop (or whatever you call the main gui on the iPhone). Then again, from the point of view of the author able to get onto the iPhone AppStore it’s pure brilliance. But what would you expect from the creators of the long running number one App at the appstore- ahem- the iFart. —pardon me.